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of closely set and very fine teeth at the base of the petal-blade. Just at this point, too, the widen- 

 ing summit of the claw is commonly somewhat folded. Siskiyou Co.: Marble Mt., Jepson 2825. 

 Sierra Nevada: Mineral, Tehama Co., Jepaon 12,276; Rough and Ready, Nevada Co., Jcp.ion 

 13,474; Italian Bar, South Fork Stanislaus River, A. L. Grant 23; Columbia, Tuolumne Co., 

 Jepson 03'M ; McClure Fork Merced River, Jepson 3215; Cedar Brook, near Fresno Flats, Newlon 

 lC9a; Limekiln Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 2793. 



Var. peirsonii Jepson var. n. Leaves mainly cauline, the lower as well as the upper usually 

 bearing red bulbils in their axils; leaf-blades trcfoil-shapod, 3 to 12 lines wide, the lobes entire 

 or more commonly with 1 to 3 notches; some of the racemes with the flowers replaced by 

 bulbils. — (Folia plerumque caulina, ct inferiora et superiora in axillaribus bulbulos rubros 

 ferentia; folia trifoliata, lin. 3-12 lata, lobis integerrimis vel sacpius 1-3 serratis; aliquot 

 racemi floribus bulbulis substitutis.) — Shady places, 3750 to 5000 feet: Liebre Mts., western 

 Mohave Desert (Collins Ranch, F. W. Peirson 3079, type). June. 



Refs. — LiTHOPHRAOMA SCABRELLA Greene, Erythea 3: 102 (1895). Tellima scabrella Greene, 

 Pitt. 2:1G2 (1891), tvpc loc. pine wood s. of Tehachapi town, Greene. L. heterophylln var. 

 scabrella Jepson, Man." 460 (1925). L. laciniata Eastw.; Small & Rydb. N. Am Fl. 22:87' (1905), 

 type loc. Marysville Buttes, Blankinship, apparently belongs here. Tellima laciniata Fedde, Just 

 Bot. Jahresb. 33^:614 (1906). Var. peirsonii Jepson. 



5. L. glabra Nutt. var. bulbifera Jepson comb. n. Rock Star, Similar in 

 habit to L. tenella; stems glandular-puberulent; cauline leaves 2 or 3, remote, 

 usually smaller than the basal; leaf -blades 2 to 5 (or 10) lines wide, twice palmately 

 divided into oblong segments % to 1 line long; axils of the stem leaves and bracts 

 of the inflorescence more or less crowded with minute dark purple or black sub- 

 globose or oblong pubescent bulbils; flowers small; calyx hispidulose, broadly 

 campanulate, with a ver}^ short broadly cuneate base, 1 to 1^2 lines long; petals 

 white or pinkish, pinnately or palmately laciniate, IVi to 2 lines long. 



Damp soil in shade of rocks, 5000 to 8000 feet: Eldorado Co. to Modoc Co.; 

 Siskiyou Co. to northern Humboldt Co. North to British Columbia, east to Colo- 

 rado. May-July. 



Locs. — Mt. Tallac, Eldorado Co.; Truckee, e. Nevada Co., Sonne; Ft. Bidwell, Manning 

 101; Goose Lake Valley, Modoc Co., E. M. A^^stin; Yreka, Butler 1132; Salmon Mts., Trinity 

 Co. ; Trinity Summit, Humboldt Co., Davy 5795. 



Refs. — LiTHOPHRAOMA GLABRA Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. 1:584 (1840), type loc. Blue Mts., ne. 

 Oregon, Nuttall. Var. bulbifera Jepson. L. hulhifera Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 22:86 (1905), type 

 loc. Battle, Carbon Co., Mont., F. Tweedy 4411. Tellima hulhifera Fedde, Just Bot. Jahresb. 

 33^:614 (1906). 



6. L. tenella Nutt. Stems slender, 4 to 13 inches high, roughish with short 

 gland-tipped hairs; leaf-blades mostly reddish-purple beneath, roundish in out- 

 line, 3 to 5-divided or -parted, the lobes again deeply lobed and toothed, often 

 cuneiform; pedicels as long as the calyx; calyx campanulate, its tube acutish at 

 base, with a ring-like swelling at the middle, bearing within an annular yellow 

 gland; petals pinkish, I14 to 2I/2 lines long, palmately 3 or 5 to 9-cleft, the lateral 

 lobes usually smaller and often merely tooth-like, or the petals sometimes pin- 

 nately cleft or toothed. 



Mountain slopes and valleys, 2000 to 6000 feet : San Jacinto, San Bernardino 

 and San Gabriel mountains; Sierra Nevada from Kern Co. to Modoc Co.; Siskij'-ou 

 Co. to Mendocino Co. East to Arizona and the Rocky Mts., north to western 

 Canada. Apr.-June. 



Locs. — Mt. Waterman, Peirson 2442; Mt. San Antonio, ace. Peirson; Bear Valley, San 

 Bernardino Mts., Parish 1321; Big Cottonwood Mdws. near Mt. "Whitney, (Contrib. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 4:281); Gilmore Lake, near Mt. Tallac, Ottley 887; Norval Flat, sw. Lassen Co., C. S. 

 Bohinson; Big Valley, Modoc Co., M. S. BaTcer; Edgewood, Siskiyou Co., J. W. Kisling ; Yreka, 

 Butler 652; Forest Glen, South Fork Trinity River, Jepson 16,649; Potter Valley, Mendocino Co., 

 Purpus. 



Refs. — LiTHOPHKAGMA TENELLA Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. 1:584 (1840), type loc. Big Sandy and 

 Siskadee rivers. Rocky Mts., Nuttall; Jepson, Man. 461 (1925). Tellimu tenella Walp. Rep. 

 2:371 (1843). T. tripartita Greene, Erythea 1:106 (1893), type loc. San Jacinto Mts., Riverside 

 Co. (formerly in San Diego Co.), Emily Gregory. L. tripartita Greene, Erythea 3:102 (1895). 



